MIN vs. FDY, NCU, GENM, SAU, STGO, FURY, TSL, and LN
Should you be buying Excelsior Mining stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Excelsior Mining include Faraday Copper (FDY), Nevada Copper (NCU), Generation Mining (GENM), St. Augustine Gold and Copper (SAU), Steppe Gold (STGO), Fury Gold Mines (FURY), Tree Island Steel (TSL), and Loncor Gold (LN). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Excelsior Mining (TSE:MIN) and Faraday Copper (TSE:FDY) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment and valuation.
Faraday Copper has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Excelsior Mining. Faraday Copper is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Excelsior Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Faraday Copper has a consensus price target of C$1.30, indicating a potential upside of 62.50%. Given Faraday Copper's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Faraday Copper is more favorable than Excelsior Mining.
37.8% of Excelsior Mining shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.9% of Faraday Copper shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Excelsior Mining shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Faraday Copper shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Excelsior Mining has a beta of 2.87, indicating that its share price is 187% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Faraday Copper has a beta of 1.69, indicating that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Excelsior Mining received 6 more outperform votes than Faraday Copper when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 83.33% of users gave Faraday Copper an outperform vote while only 68.75% of users gave Excelsior Mining an outperform vote.
Faraday Copper's return on equity of -86.27% beat Excelsior Mining's return on equity.
In the previous week, Faraday Copper had 1 more articles in the media than Excelsior Mining. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Faraday Copper and 2 mentions for Excelsior Mining. Faraday Copper's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Excelsior Mining's score of 0.09 indicating that Faraday Copper is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Faraday Copper beats Excelsior Mining on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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